Riptide, Douglas Preston
Riptide, Douglas Preston
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Riptide

Author: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 14 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/03/2010

Synopsis

IN 1695, a notorious English pirate buried his bounty in a maze of booby-trapped tunnels on an island off the coast of Maine. In three hundred years, no one has breached this cursed and rocky fortress. Now a treasure hunter and his high-tech, million-dollar recovery team embark on the perfect operation to unlock the labyrinth's mysteries. First the computers fail. The then crewmen begin to die. The island has guarded its secrets for centuries, and it isn't letting them go--without a fight.

About Douglas Preston

Douglas Preston is the author of more than thirty books, both fiction and nonfiction, more than twenty of which have been New York Times bestsellers. He has worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. His first novel, Relic, coauthored with Lincoln Child, was made into a movie, and launched the famed Pendergast series of novels. His recent nonfiction book, The Monster of Florence, is also being made into a film. In addition to books, Preston writes about archaeology and paleontology for the New Yorker, National Geographic, and Smithsonian.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Matthew on June 04, 2018

Preston and Child are always amazing - this book was no exception. I was immediately enthralled with the National Treasure-esque intro and all the mystery it presented. Then I was kept holding my breath until the very end. These guys can really spin a tale! Almost every chapter ended with a cliffhang......more

Goodreads review by Vicki on April 12, 2025

Ye Who Lust After the Key to the Water Pit... Shall Find the Key to the Next World RIPTIDE by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child No spoilers. 5 stars. Ragged Island, six miles off the coast of Maine... 1695... Infamous pirate Edward (Red Ned) Ockham buried his vast plundered treasures somewhere off the......more

Goodreads review by Peter on July 10, 2018

Compelling tale. Absolutely loved reading it!......more

Goodreads review by James on August 14, 2016

Ever hear of the Oak Island mystery? If you haven't, you should look it up. It's a fascinating (and TRUE!) story of buried treasure…or at least a buried SOMETHING, on an island off the coast of Nova Scotia. As I have many times, Preston and Child have taken a more-or-less historic event and built a......more

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